I don’t know about Flynn, but this is in large part not new news: that the early 1920s US iodization led to measurable gains in enlistees for WWII has been in papers floating around for a while now; for example, “The Economic Effects of Micronutrient Deficiency: Evidence from Salt Iodization in the United States”, Feyrer et al 2008. “The Impact of Iodine Deficiency Eradication on Schooling: Evidence from the Introduction of Iodized Salt in Switzerland”, Politi 2010, is also cool. Also maybe even voting patterns.
(Citations borrowed from my iodine page.)
that the early 1920s US iodization led to measurable gains in enlistees for WWII has been in papers floating around for a while now; for example, “The Economic Effects of Micronutrient Deficiency: Evidence from Salt Iodization in the United States”, Feyrer et al 2008.
I think the paper JoshuaZ’s linked is a completed version of that 2008 draft: the authors are the same and the title & abstract are similar.
Also maybe even voting patterns.
That link doesn’t work for me.
Maybe. I haven’t read it yet but I copied it over to http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/182368464/2013-feyrer.pdf
Oh, sorry. They redirected the page instead of using a 404 error, grr, no wonder my linkchecker runs didn’t pick it up. This link should work: http://web.archive.org/web/20120926070411/http://www.uncg.edu/bae/econ/seminars/2012/Bednar.pdf
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That’s helpful, thanks!
I don’t know about Flynn, but this is in large part not new news: that the early 1920s US iodization led to measurable gains in enlistees for WWII has been in papers floating around for a while now; for example, “The Economic Effects of Micronutrient Deficiency: Evidence from Salt Iodization in the United States”, Feyrer et al 2008. “The Impact of Iodine Deficiency Eradication on Schooling: Evidence from the Introduction of Iodized Salt in Switzerland”, Politi 2010, is also cool. Also maybe even voting patterns.
(Citations borrowed from my iodine page.)
I think the paper JoshuaZ’s linked is a completed version of that 2008 draft: the authors are the same and the title & abstract are similar.
That link doesn’t work for me.
Maybe. I haven’t read it yet but I copied it over to http://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/182368464/2013-feyrer.pdf
Oh, sorry. They redirected the page instead of using a 404 error, grr, no wonder my
linkcheckerruns didn’t pick it up. This link should work: http://web.archive.org/web/20120926070411/http://www.uncg.edu/bae/econ/seminars/2012/Bednar.pdfThat’s helpful, thanks!